Originally Posted by
Brue
I stayed til the end because I so wanted it not to suck. i shoulda walked out. I wasted time as well as my money.
many point to jar jar as teh culprit. he is merely the tip of the ice berg.
bad, overused cgi
The art form was still relatively new at the time, but for the most part, the FX in The Phantom Menace look GREAT: Pod Race Sequence, three-way Lightsaber battle, Space Battle, Coruscant... all of it CGI. The Gungan Land battle definitely looked too... CGI, though.
Originally Posted by
Brue
a plot about tax evasion
The plot was NOT about "tax evasion". It was about Senator Palpatine of Naboo (secretly Sith Lord Darth Sidious) making himself look like a hero in the eyes of the Senate as he defended his blockaded / invaded planet. When nominations for Supreme Chancellor came up, naturally the vote would go to him.
It was also an introduction to the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic and the discovery of Anakin Skywalker... very possibly the "chosen one" of Jedi prophecy.
Originally Posted by
Brue
jake loyd
Yes. Some difficult acting moments there. Some even clumsier directing by George Lucas.
Originally Posted by
Brue
dialogue
Dialogue has always been a bit corny in STAR WARS (Re: "Laugh it up fuzzball", etc.) That didn't bother me.
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Brue
script
Yes, quite possibly the most elaborate and adult STAR WARS script of all the movies, dealing with politics, political plotting, metaphysics, etc.
Originally Posted by
Brue
immaculate conception
Hmmm... well, I had no issue with the idea of Anakin having an immaculate conception since STAR WARS has always tied into religious themes. But would you have been more comfortable if it had been revealed that Anakin's dad was just some slave Joe-Blow from Tatooine?
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Brue
the force is a virus?
No. The Force is NOT a virus. And the prequel films did NOT explain it as such.
The Force is still (as Obi-Wan Kenobi described it) "... an energy field created by all living things..." that "... surrounds us and penetrates us..." and "... binds the galaxy together..."
But what the Prequels clarified was that ALL individuals have microscopic life forms living within them (Midi-chlorians) that serve as the person's link TO the Force. These organisms continuously "speak" to the individual, revealing the Force's "will" for them.
Individuals with a higher Midi-chlorian count have a greater sensitivity to the will of The mystical Force.
Originally Posted by
Brue
shimi
???? What's your issue with her? She was fine. DId you have an issue with Luke's Aunt Beru during A NEW HOPE? She basically served the same story function as Shmi.
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Brue
the robot bad guys
Yeah. The Battle Droids were a bit corny (even for STAR WARS). They were clunky and ineffective (I guess they were supposed to be), and their preoccupation with someone named "Roger" was a bit off-putting. But the other droids throughout the film were pretty cool. I particularly liked the dangerous, fast-rolling Droidekas! Very interesting concept.
Originally Posted by
Brue
just about everything was bad about this movie
To each his own, I guess. To me, just about everything was good about this movie (with a few notable exceptions). I feel the same way about every film I really like... certainly the classic Original Trilogy.
Originally Posted by
Brue
the worst part was that it trashed the story that we loved. It basically ignored the story of Star Wars and created a lees imaginitive back story.
How? How did Episode I "trash" the classic OT story? How did it "ignore" the classic OT story?
From where I sit, the brilliance of the Prequel films was that they gave you a different perspective of the stuff you thought you knew from the Original Trilogy. The Prequels turned some OT concepts on their ear a bit without "trashing" or even contradicting them (unless you consider some of the stuff that old Kenobi said in the OT from his own "... point of view..." Clearly, that dude is a bit of a liar, liar pants on fire. 
).
If you own the 1976 novelization of STAR WARS, and if you read the prologue at the beginning of the book, Palpatine's rise to power is chronicled virtually in the same way that it was depicted in the prequel films.
In fact, it's the first and only source that names Palpatine during the OT. virtually all other references (even the classic films themselves) refer to him as simply "The Emperor".
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